a Gen quiz with a 20th century flavor

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2. Rules
◼20 questions
◼Normal pounce and bounce
◼First 10 questions will be clockwise and the
next 10 will be anti clockwise.
◼+10/-5 on pounce and +10 for bounce.

4. #1
These group of people fought against British in a war which occured in
the beginning of the 20th C . The British made a settlement with them by
excluding black and colored men from political rights .
These group of people controlled an area known as Transvaal province by
1906 and began to legislate against Asian immigrants by compelling the
registration of Asian immigrants . A protest was held on Sep 11 which
was led by a young immigrant in a certain way .
ID the group and the young man mentioned in the question .

6. Afrikaner M K Gandhi

7. #2
Typhus was one of the deadly diseases that
affected many after WW1. But it wasn't able to
cause much devastation after WW2 thanks to a
1939 invention which ensured the death of
typhus carrying animals .
ID the invention which also saved many lives
during the Korean war by killing malaria
carrying mosquitoes .

9. DDT

10. #3
In the movie Lavakusha when Aju Vargheese and
Neeraj Madhav are chased my men armed with
gun Neeraj says to Aju to kneel so that the bullet
will not hit his head . But Aju refuses to do so and
replies that he has also watched a 2003 movie . Id
the movie .

13. #4
Grislada Blanco was a drug lord of the 20th C. She
was also known as La Madina , the black widow.
She used to own a lingerie manufacturing shops .
For what reason did she run this shop ?

15. The lingeries had secret compartment that
were used to smuggle drugs .

16. #5
K’ang Yu-wei was a Chinese scholar who was known as
'Rousseau of China’. He was an advocate of intellectual
government reform in the 1890s.
He was sentenced to death by slicing but however he escaped
his sentence .
How did he escape this punishment ? If he had done the same
thing now he won't have escaped .

18. He went to Hong Kong

19. #6
Apopo int is a NGO headquartered in Belgium .
They supplied a group of trained rats to Mozambique in 2013 for a certain
purpose . An event which started in 1977 and ended on 1992 was the reason for
this purpose .
These rats were employed for this purpose due to their strong sensing ability
and nimbleness . Although they are about the weight of a cat but still they are
light enough for this task .
What are these rats used for ?

22. To detect landmines

23. #7
Sergio Romanio wrote in the 'financial times’ on
16th may 1997 about the first Albanian free
election that half the electorates were going to
the polls carrying a __________ . The blank is
also the name of a vodka company, an inventor
and also refers to a category of things related to
his invention .FITB .

25. Kalashnikov

26. #8
This unit of the Indian Navy masquerades near the
lakes in Kashmir . In order to masquerade as a
civilian in Kashmir a certain feature is necessary.
This is why this unit is one among the only ones to
permit this feature .
ID this feature and the unit .

28. MARCOS Beard

29. #9
When questioned about an incident, one of the person
involved in it said that it was a hot day and the train
wasn't moving at the expected speed ,if they failed at
the first attempt then it would take about 20 minutes
to attempt again because the train had to comeback .
She also added that instead of what another person
involved in this incident did , he should have just
pulled the chains .
Which incident is being mentioned here?

32. #10
Yibambe is a Xhosa word which means ‘ hold still’.
In which 2018 movie have we all heard this war
cry ? ( The meaning is appropriate for the
situation )

36. #11
Which anti colonial uprising that began in the
beginning of the 20th century in an Asian country
and might remind you of a piece of clothing ,gets
its name because of its participants pursuit of
traditional martial art eventhough the martial art
in the name of the uprising is not a traditional
sport of that country ?

38. Boxer rebellion

39. #12
One of the early step towards modernity in Japan was a decree
in 1876 that forbade the wearing of something in public except
for policemen and armed force officers.
These were only worn by a certain group of people who
represented the brutalities of the feudal society in Japan .
What was forbidden to wear in public ?

41. Sword

42. #13
‘Seduction of the innocent’ is a book written by a
German psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham . The
book says about how comics leads to the rotting of
children’s mind .
This prompted DC comics to introduce something ( in
issue 223 of detective comics ) in one of its most
successful comics inorder to show that the lead
character didn't had a gay relationship . What did they
introduce ?

44. Batwoman

45. #14
Fitb or ID the movie adaption
of this book .

48. #15
A major crash on 1955 June 11 at the worlds oldest active
sports car race caused large fragments of debris to fly into
the crowd, killing 83 spectators and the French driver
Pierre Bouillin (who raced under the name Pierre Levegh)
also injuring nearly 180 more. Even after the crash
occurred the authorities refused to stop the race .
A ) Why did they refuse to stop the race?
B ) Id the race .

50. A- If they stop the race the audience
will leave the stadium thereby
causing difficulty for the ambulance
to enter the stadium
B- 24 hours of Le Mans

51. #16
This blurb appeared in a 1937 issue of Popular Science. In London, two fellows
donned asbestos suits and feigned a boxing match while their pyrotechnic
doppelgangers exploded alongside them, like some sort of spontaneously
combusting conjoined twins.
A certain practice was followed along with these matches to allow the audience a
better visual experience which made the match more hazardous & led to the
decline of firework boxing . What was the practice ?

53. To get a better visual experience these matches
were played without light

54. #17
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk did many reforms during his period in Turkey . His
acts include changing capital to Ankara , proclaiming Turkey as secular nation
, banning polygamy etc.
One such change occurred in 1935 when he legalised something (which was
the one prevailing in most of the countries ) instead of the one prevailing in
the state ( which existed only among Islamic countries ). This led to the entry
of a word in to the language . The word denotes a period of 36 hours
between a certain time in a week .
Id the word and what did he change .

56. Weekend
legalising sunday as a holiday instead of friday

57. #18
During the Spanish civil war Nationalist pilots were able to drops
some supplies for their trapped soldiers in the monastery of
Santa Maria de la Cabeza but they were lacking enough
parachutes . In order to overcome this they used something
instead of a parachute which also provided them another
advantage .
What were used instead of parachutes ?

60. #19
_____ _______ hired a group of Russian
submersibles in 1995 to explore something and
it resulted in a 160 min long product . The
things used to make the product include 17
million gallon tank and a huge replica of
whatever he explored in 1995 .
Id the product & what is the significance of 160
min ?

62. Titanic
160 min was the time titanic took to sink

64. #20
Although the exact date is not known . One
theory states that the date we all assume this
happened was chosen because the date was 9
months after something regarding the event
happened . What is the event that took place
on the date mentioned in the question ?

66. Birth of Christ